
46 stenhårda tillbakablickar på ett Amerika som under tidigt 70-tal vaknar upp till en miljöbaksmälla som är värd att skriva ett par rader i dagboken om. Över 100 fotografer skickades ut för att dokumentera vad som hände i deras land of opportunities… Obligatoriskt.
“As the 1960s came to an end, the rapid development of the American postwar decades had begun to take a noticeable toll on the environment, and the public began calling for action. In November 1971, the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a massive photo documentary project, called DOCUMERICA, to record these changes. More than 100 photographers were hired not only to document specific environmental issues, but to capture images of everyday life, showing how we interacted with the environment and capturing the way parts of America looked at that moment in history. By 1974, more than 80,000 photographs had been produced. The National Archives has made 15,000 of these images available, and I’ve spent much of the past week combing through those to bring you these 46 glimpses of America in the early 1970s, with an eye toward our then-ailing environment.”
www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/11/documerica-images-of-america-in-crisis-in-the-1970s
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20 Nov 2011 by Top Dollar |